DeansTalk - business management education

Dean Ken Freeman of Boston School of Management talks with Gustavo Valle, CEO of Dannon

February 9th, 2012

Dannon CEO Gustavo Valle visited the School of Management on January 30, 2012
and had the opportunity to chat CEO-to-CEO with Dean Ken Freeman about running his multinational food company. Their discussion is part of our new “Conversations with Ken” video series.

INSEAD Wins Top Global Case Study Award: ecch Case Awards 2012

(Financial Times, Della Bradshaw, "Insead scoops top award with tale of toilet paper", February 2, 2012)

ecch Case Awards 2012 produce winners from across the globe

20 February 2012

An unprecedented thirteen schools from seven countries in four geographical regions have produced winners in the 2012 ecch case awards and competitions. The annual case awards are made in Nine Categories, plus One Overall Winner, and one prestigious award recognising an Outstanding Contribution to the Case Method. The two competitions are for a new case in a Hot Topic (this year Social Media and Change), and for a New Case Writer.

• The Overall Winning Case was authored at INSEAD
• The Richard Ivey School of Business’ James A Erskine, Michiel R Leenders and Louise A Mauffette-Leenders scooped the Outstanding Contribution to the Case Method award
• Harvard Business School won Two Category Awards and the Hot Topic Competition
• Cambridge Judge Business School, Cranfield School of Management and Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University each won a Category Award
• IBS Research Center and ICMR Center for Management Research each won a Category Award
• An Ivey Publishing case authored at Nagoya University of Commerce & Business won a Category Award
• Stanford Graduate School of Business won a Category Award
• MIT Sloan School of Management, in partnership with Massachusetts General Hospital, shared the award for a New Case Writer with London Business School.

Please see Notes for Editors below for full details of award winners.

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Overall winner
ecch, Renova Toilet Paper: Avant-garde Marketing in a Commoditized Category
Yakov Bart, Pierre Chandon, Steven Sweldens and Raquel Seabra de Sousa
INSEAD

A INSEAD video case study focusing on the marketing strategies of Portuguese paper company Renova has won the overall global award for the best case study from ECCH (formerly European Case Clearing House). Renova differentiated itself from its peers -- some of whom are international paper companies such as Georgia Pacific -- through innovation...and the creation of Renova Black toilet paper, launching the rolls from supermarket shelves into fashion shows and designer boutiques. The project was directed by marketing professor Pierre Chandon and the video component was produced in-house at INSEAD. Professor Chandon and Renova CEO Paulo Pereira da Silva introduce the first video segment of the video case study...

 

 

Video Contest for MBA Students and Recent Grads

Here at the Global Business School Network, we are dedicated to the idea that MBAs can change the world.  Whether through their volunteer work, student projects, new enterprises or blossoming careers, many of your students are making a difference in the developing world.  Our MBA Challenge Video Contest was designed to celebrate and reward their efforts.

The MBA Challenge Video Contest welcomes video submissions from current and recently graduated (in the past 5 years) MBA students from any business school around the globe.  Individuals or teams are encouraged to make an innovative and powerful video of no more than 6 minutes, demonstrating how they are applying their business skills to impact lives in the developing world.  

First prize is an all expense paid trip for one team member to the GBSN Annual Conference at the Taj Palace Hotel in New Delhi, India, June 11 - 13, 2012.

Click here to watch last year's winning videos (click on the "2011 Winners" tab)

The contest will open for submissions March 1st - 31st.  Online voting will occur April 1 - 15th, after which a panel of judges will select a winner and two runners up from the top 5 videos, based on online voting.

Please help us spread the word to your network! Information on the contest is available at http://www.gbsnonline.org/mbachallenge/.  

You (and they) can stay up to date on the latest information on the MBA Challenge, as well as information on MBAs making a difference by following @MBAChallenge on Twitter. (You can find GBSN @GBSNonline and on Facebook)

Here is a flyer for you to share . 

Global Business School Network
1010 Vermont Ave. NW, Ste 201
Washington, DC  20005 USA
www.gbsnonline.org

GBSN is an international non-profit organization working to strengthen management education for emerging markets through a unique global network of business schools.

2012 Horizon Report - emerging technologies and Higher Education - NMC/Educause

2012 Horizon Report, February 3, 2012

New Media Consortium, @NMCorg

Organization devoted to exploring use of new media for teaching, learning, & creative expression. Founder of the Horizon Reports (#NMChz). Austin, Texas · www.nmc.org

Each year, the Horizon Report describes six areas of emerging technology that will have significant impact on higher education and creative expression over the next one to five years. The areas of emerging technology cited for 2012 are:

Time to adoption: One Year or Less

• Mobile Apps
• Tablet Computing

Time to adoption: Two to Three Years

• Game-based Learning
• Learning Analytics

Time to adoption: Four to Five Years

• Gesture-based Computing
• Internet of Things

 

 

Dean John Quelch of CEIBS in Shanghai - FT - Bark with bite

Professor John Quelch (Wikipedia) is dean of Ceibs in Shanghai. His latest book is ‘All Business Is Local’. Previously, he was senior associate dean at Harvard Business School and dean of London Business School  (Ceibs press)

Article of Finanical Times, "Bark with bite", January 30, 2012

Academics succeed if their names are linked to one important idea that outlives them. Professor Theodore Levitt’s name is linked to many. The first was a blockbuster. “Marketing myopia” was published by Harvard Business Review (HBR) in 1960, one year after Harvard Business School plucked Prof Levitt, the son of a German immigrant cobbler, from the University of North Dakota...

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www.quelch.tv

Video: Can the U.S. Economy Still Compete With China?, Feb 8, 2012 “All Business is Local” author John Quelch on what is needed to boost U.S. economic growth and competitiveness globally

Deans Peter Henry (Stern) and Robert Bruner (Darden) - CNBC video "MBA Students: Wall S. vs Silicon Valley"

CNBC video 14 February, 2012

Professor/Director Liz Mellon, book "Inside the Leader’s Mind: Five Ways to Think Like a Leader"

The Thinkers 50 interview

Amazon, "Inside the Leader’s Mind: Five Ways to Think Like a Leader", FT Press; 1 edition (June 30, 2011), 232 pages

Elizabeth Mellon has been Executive Director of Duke Corporate Education, a global learning and development corporation, since 2004. Previously she spent twelve years in the Department of Trade and Industry before taking a MBA and PhD at LBS. At LBS she was Professor of Organizational Behaviour and also served as Director of the Senior Executive Programme, the London Business School's flagship program for senior executives. During the same period, she also taught on, and directed, the School's Global Consortium Programme.

Deputy Dean of degree programs at INSEAD, Peter Zemsky - The Personal Journey of an Effective Leader

Forbes February 10,2012, Matt Symonds, Contributor, Chief editor of MBA50.com

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So where can business schools make a difference in leadership development?

In this interview with Peter Zemsky, Deputy Dean of degree programs at INSEAD, he talks about how business education can help MBA students to become better leaders, in an environment designed to test them, push them, stress them, and expose them to different perspectives on the personal journey to leadership.

He also tackles the debate about whether business school research really matters, and shares his thoughts on management as an art or a science.

LeWeb 2011 - "How European Governments support startup ecosystems" + EU Open Data Portals

EU Open Data Portals

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YouTube - How european Governments support startup ecosystems  (LeWeb 2011)

Moderated by: Sherry Coutu, Former CEO & Angel Investor (mentioned http://svc2uk.com/appathon)

Nicolas Princen, Advisor for New Media and Information Technology, Office of President Nicolas Sarkozy (mentioned OpenData initiative www.data.gouv.fr, Google R&D Paris)

Eric Van der Kleij, CEO, Tech City Investment Organisation (mentioned UK Open Data, and Global Entrepreneurship Network initiative, suggestions to gen@leweb.net)

@TechCityUK, Interactive Maps of involved companies, www.techcityuk.com/do-business-here

 

GMAC - The Next Generation GMAT - June 2012, video

The Next Generation

GMAT Integrated Reasoning Section Launching June 2012

The Next Generation GMAT exam will give applicants to your program one more score to help differentiate themselves from other candidates by demonstrating, objectively, skills that management faculty say today’s incoming management students need...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi: video of Rajmohan Gandhi at Brown University

Via @BrownUniversity, RT by @SantiagoIniguez

YouTube Brownuniversity 03/12/2009
Rajmohan Gandhi, grandson of one of the 20th century's most revered and peaceful activists, speaks about the links between Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.

Financial crisis will be management focus in 2012, poll 900 leaders + Video: Talent Management

HR magazine.co.uk, 10 Jan 2012      @hrmagazine

One-in-five senior managers expect new management jobs created over the next year will focus on keeping companies out of financial distress, according to a survey by interim management solution firm, Interim Partners.

The survey of 900 senior managers and directors found 19% expected 'turnaround specialists' to be the leading management role by jobs created in the next year. Turnaround specialists focus on the work needed to take a company out of financial distress, such as cutting costs and reducing debt.

The other big area of demand for new interim management roles over the next year is for change management experts – 31% of senior managers and directors polled expect this area to lead demand for new roles...

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YouTube video added by HRMagazineUK 12 August 2011

Bob Marsden, director of development and people at Balfour Beatty Utility Solutions, and Paul Sparrow, director of the centre for perfomance-led HR at Lancaster University Management School debate this hot topic with HR magazine's editor -- Sian Harrington.

James Dyson - inventor and entrepreneur - video: now is the time to invest in design

www.jamesdysonfoundation.com

The Dyson Story

With his research team he has developed products that have achieved sales of over $6 billion worldwide.

Video on failure

James Dyson on Wikipedia

Sir James Dyson (born 2 May 1947) is a British industrial designer and founder of the Dyson company.

He is best known as the inventor of the Dual Cyclone bagless vacuum cleaner, which works on the principle of cyclonic separation. His net worth in 2011 was said to be £1.45 billion.^[1]

www.JamesDysonAward.org

Following video uploaded by telegraphtv 15/02/2011

The designer and entrepreneur says that now is the time for the government, the city, and consumers to invest in good design.

Professor of Economics, David Blanchflower of Dartmouth (Tuck) on U.S. Economy, EU Crisis - video

Jan. 6, 2012 (Bloomberg) -- David Blanchflower, a professor at Dartmouth College and a Bloomberg Television contributing editor, talks about the U.S. economy, labor market ( wages) and Europe's sovereign debt crisis. He speaks with Tom Keene on Bloomberg Television's "Surveillance Midday." (Source: Bloomberg)

El Exportador - ICEX Canal TV (in Spanish) + McKinsey report on the new investor landscape

As some of our readers are from Spain (1. USA, 2. UK, 3. India, 4. Spain, 5. Canada, 6. Netherlands, 7. France, 8. South Korea, 9. Germany...) we thought we would start the year with a Spanish video series on exporting, shown on Spanish TV with ICEX, the Spanish Insitute of Foreign Trade.

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El ICEX y RTVE analizan los casos de éxito de la internacionalización española con “El Exportador”, 30/12/2011

El programa, que consta de 13 capítulos, aborda los primeros pasos, la implantación y la trayectoria exportadora de nuestras empresas en el exterior...

www.youtube.com/user/icex

www.icex.tv  y La 2 de RTVE

Speaks of:

www.thespanisheconomy.com

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Videos talk about financing...

McKinsey Global Institute report - December 2011 The emerging equity gap: Growth and stability in the new investor landscape Short of a very rapid change in investor behavior and adoption of new policies in the largest emerging economies, the role of equities in the global financial system may be reduced in the coming decade.more

The re-launch of Cass Knowledge

Episode 100 – The re-launch of Cass Knowledge, November 2011.

Director and Deputy Dean of Cass Business School, Steve Haberman celebrates the 100th episode of Cass Talks

Sheryl Sandberg (COO Facebook) On Why We Have Too Few Women Leaders, HBS MBA '95

Ted Talks, December 2010

U.S. Competitiveness Project - Harvard Business School

www.hbs.edu/competitiveness  

Media news including www.compete.org

The Harvard Business School's U.S. Competitiveness Project, led by Professors Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin, will engage some of the world's greatest thinkers to assess U.S. competitiveness and develop actionable recommendations to change America's trajectory. 15 nov. 2011

In an interview with Justin Fox of Harvard Business Review, Professors Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin define U.S. competitiveness, explain why it's crucial to look at drivers of competitiveness holistically, and call upon all Americans, especially those in business, to meet the competitiveness challenge by turning strategy into action. "While government policy sets the stage, it is companies that ultimately win or lose in the marketplace," says Professor Porter.

The Institute for New Economic Thinking

@ineteconomics

ineteconomics.org

Wikipedia

Video 1 Dec 2010

Dean Bernard Ramanantsoa, HEC Paris - Financial Times' "Meet the dean"

From SPECIAL REPORTS

Meet the dean

Bernard Ramanantsoa, dean of HEC Paris, on how it has changed in the 25 years since he was there as a student

“Ça n’a rien á voir,” says Bernard Ramanantsoa when I ask how his experience of an MBA at HEC in 1976 might differ from that of today’s participants. In other words, the two are worlds apart...

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Also was on Ask the experts: European business schools 2011, Dec 7 2011

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European business schools find an edge

Dec 1 2011  European business schools are better placed now to compete with top US business schools but they themselves are facing competition from Asian schools. Bernard Ramanantsoa, dean of HEC Paris, discusses with Della Bradshaw, business education editor, the challenges of competition and funding in austere times.  (5m 4sec)

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us - Daniel Pink

www.danpink.com/drive

Daniel H. Pink is an American author and journalist. From 1995 to 1997, he worked for Vice President Al Gore in the capacity of chief speechwriter, and before that as an aide to Secretary of Labor Robert Reich.^[1]

Drive, #1 New York Times bestseller

Most people believe that the best way to motivate is with rewards like money--the carrot-and-stick approach. That's a mistake, says Daniel H. Pink in Drive. In this provocative and persuasive new book, he asserts that the secret to high performance and satisfaction--at work, at school, and at home--is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world.

Drawing on four decades of scientific research on human motivation, Pink exposes the mismatch between what science knows and what business does-and how that affects every aspect of life. He examines the three elements of true motivation--autonomy, mastery, and purpose--and offers smart and surprising techniques for putting these into action in a unique book that will change how we think and transform how we live.

Thinkers50 - Professors Vijay Govindarajan, Herminia Ibarra, Rita McGrath and Linda Hill - Studiotalk.tv

http://www.studiotalk.tv/show/business-leaders-live

Vijay Govindarajan, Herminia Ibarra, Rita McGrath and Linda Hill were live online on Tuesday 15th November.

The world’s leading business brains are gathering in London for the Thinkers50 Summit, a world-class management conference and awards celebrating the best and brightest global management thinkers...

Many of these pivotal ideas have been published by the Harvard Business Review Group and four of these leading thinkers are joining us in a special live webTV show to discuss how their ideas are impacting the business world are:

• Vijay Govindarajan, shortlisted for the Thinkers50 Breakthrough Idea Award for ‘ The $300 House’ – an idea he put forward in a 2010 blog that set off a campaign to re-invent housing for the world’s poorest people. Vijay coined the term ‘reverse innovation’ and his long-awaited new book on the subject publishes next year. VG is Professor at the Tuck School for Business, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire.

• Herminia Ibarra is shortlisted for the prestigious Thinkers50 Leadership award. The Cuban-born INSEAD professor made an impact with her 2003 book, Working Identity.  Now, her research asks: Are you a collaborative leader?

• Columbia Business School’s Rita McGrath is an expert on strategic business growth in uncertain environments. Shortlisted for the T50 Strategy Award she is regarded as someone a CEO of a major corporation should turn to for practical and imaginative strategic advice. Her latest book is Discovery Driven Growth (with Ian MacMillan) which promises a breakthrough process to reduce risk and seize opportunities. DiscoveryDrivenGrowth.com

• Linda Hill is the author, with Kent Lineback of Thinkers50-shortlisted business book Being the Boss. She is also shortlisted in her own right for the T50 Leadership Award. Linda is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and her current research looks at leadership for innovation.

Who cares for society? - Filipe Santos, INSEAD’s Assoc Professor of Social Entrepreneurship

--- by Nicholas Bray --- Last updated: October 27, 2011

...“Social enterprises generate a process of innovation in society by addressing problems that are neglected by the other institutions in our society, mainly the governments and markets and to some extent the social charity sector”...

...But social entrepreneurship shouldn’t just be written off as a comfortable add-on to the activities of established profit-oriented companies. It’s a strategy for value creation in its own right and a phenomenon that is increasingly becoming a focus of academic research...

...“Regulatory frameworks tend to keep things apart and regulate separately (things) that actually social entrepreneurs blend,”...

Dean Garth Saloner of Stanford GSB - Stanford business school launches institute to alleviate poverty with $150 million gift

Article by Della Bradshaw, November 4, 2011.

Stanford Graduate School of Business has received a $150m gift, the largest in its history, to focus on alleviating poverty in emerging markets. The Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies is to find ways of applying the kind of entrepreneurial skills made famous at Stanford, situated in the heart of California’s Silicon Valley, to spur economic growth.

For Garth Saloner, the South African dean of Stanford GSB, the institute should bring two benefits. “The end goal here is poverty alleviation and capacity building for Stanford University.”

One of the most distinctive elements of the initiative is that although housed at the business school, every department at the university could be involved, including engineering, healthcare, law or public policy. The multidisciplinary approach is what distinguishes the centre from others in the US, says the dean. “I do think directionally that this (alleviating poverty in developing economies) is the sort of activity that people do not usually associate with a business school. “But issues such as sustainability, governance and water policy are areas where leadership and entrepreneurship can play a critical role, he argues.

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Press Release from Stanford Graduate School of Business, November 4, 2011

Stanford Graduate School of Business Launches Institute to Alleviate Poverty with $150 Million Gift

STANFORD, CA—The Stanford Graduate School of Business has established the Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies with a $150 million gift from Dorothy and Robert King, MBA ’60.

"Poor Economics" named Financial Times Business Book of the Year + FT Video interview

www.pooreconomics.com  (on Amazon)

Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty

Poor Economics argues that so much of anti-poverty policy has failed over the years because of an inadequate understanding of poverty. The battle against poverty can be won, but it will take patience, careful thinking and a willingness to learn using an evidence-based approach based on randomized control trials.

...Through a careful analysis of a body of evidence, including hundreds of randomized control trials Banerjee and Duflo’s lab pioneered, they show why the poor, despite having the same desires and abilities as anyone else, end up with entirely different lives. Banerjee and Duflo used randomized control trials across five continents to test the impact of policies aimed at beating poverty...

Bill Gates, (October 21, 2011): Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Book Review)

...The book Poor Economics is very helpful, because it is both empirically rigorous and insightful about the realities that the data doesn’t always capture.

Poor Economics is by two MIT economists, Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee and Esther Duflo.  Their life’s work is traveling to poor countries, looking closely at what works and what doesn’t work in efforts to fight hunger and disease, improve education, and broaden access to basic financial services. The authors are directors of J-PAL, an MIT poverty action lab that’s a network of 59 professors around the world who use scientific methods to answer critical questions about alleviating poverty...

One of Bill Gates's G20 bookshelf, recommends five books.

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Financial Times: Business Book of the Year 2011

Poor Economics, which champions radical new ways of tackling global poverty, is the 2011 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year. Abhijit Banerjee received the £30,000 award on behalf of his co-author Esther Duflo at a dinner in London on Thursday.

Lionel Barber, editor of the Financial Times and chair of the panel of judges, said he had been “blown away by the thoroughness of [Banerjee and Duflo’s] empirical research. This is going to be a real basis for innovation in policy, innovation in government, and a guide to intellectual debate. This is a business book in the broadest sense”. Read more about the winning book...

Dean "Danos Says Tuck School Leads MBA Placement Ranking" - Washington Post

Washington Post, October 11, 2011.

Oct. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Paul Danos, dean of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, talks about the demand for positions at the school, the quality of Tuck applicants and the success of graduates. Tonight at 7 p.m. New York time, Bloomberg Television and the Washington Post, in partnership with WBIN-TV and host Dartmouth College, will present the first debate of the 2012 campaign focused exclusively on the economy. Charlie Rose moderates. He'll be joined by Washington Post political correspondent Karen Tumulty and Bloomberg White House correspondent Julianna Goldman. Danos speaks on Bloomberg Television's "InBusiness with Margaret Brennan."

Dean Peter Tufano of Oxford - Lessons learned at Harvard find new home at Oxford

Article of Della Bradshaw, October 3, 2011

A quiet revolution looks set to take place at the University of Oxford, that most hallowed of academic institutions. And it is all to do with a man from Cambridge – Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Peter Tufano, the new dean at the Saïd school, has plans to build the reputation of the business school to match that of the university, one of the UK’s most prestigious. Few could doubt his credentials: for the past 22 years he has been a faculty member of Harvard...

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Sunil Kumar, dean of Chicago Booth - "Chicago School defends it research" - FT video

Video interview with Della Bradshaw of the Financial Times.

Jul 8 2011  The free market theories of "Chicago School" economists have been blamed for the financial crisis. Sunil Kumar, the new dean of Chicago Booth business school, defends the research to Della Bradshaw, business education editor. He explains how the school is investigating how to avoid future crises and how to make sure the theories and their limitations are better understood.  (6m 6sec)

Immelt´s Words of Wisdom for MBA Grads at Tuck Investiture Ceremony

From "Dartmouth now"

Soon-to-be Tuck School of Business MBAs received an early graduation gift from GE CEO Jeff Immelt ’78: five tips for success.

In a packed Leede Arena at the Tuck Investiture Ceremony, Immelt told the MBA candidates to think globally, have the courage to make difficult decisions, be problem solvers, connect with people, and understand context...

 

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GE Leadership

external focus, imagination and creativity, decisiveness, clear thinking

http://careers.geblogs.com/tag/leadership/

Professor Christina Romer(Berkeley) and Assoc. Dean Mathew Slaughter(Tuck) - calming market jitters (PBS video+transcript)

PBS Newshour, August 10, 2011

JUDY WOODRUFF: Today's plunge marked the fourth time in just over a week where the Dow Jones industrials have dropped by triple digits. Market volatility is at again near record levels.

We look at this and the larger picture with two people who have worked closely on economic policy. Christina Romer was the chair of the Council of Economic Advisers for President Obama until September 2010. She's a professor of economics at the University of California at Berkeley. And Matthew Slaughter served on President George W. Bush's Council of Economic Advisers from 2005 to 2007. He's now associate dean of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. And we thank you both for being with us.

Christina Romer, to you first.

The scary roller-coaster ride on the stock market continued again today. How do you explain it?

CHRISTINA ROMER, University of California at Berkley: Well, I think, obviously, one of the things about the stock market is it's very hard to explain the ups and downs...

Dean Sally Blount of the Kellogg School of Management, (Northwestern U.) - Videos on bigthink

bigthink.com/sallyblount

Dean Roger Martin of Rotman School of Management discusses the importance of innovation in corporate success

On YouTube, July 12, 2011.

Thomas F. Cooley, former Dean of Stern School of Business, NYU - The Big Think

http://bigthink.com/thomascooley

Thomas F. Cooley was appointed Dean of NYU Stern in 2002...

"Brent Hoberman and lastminute.com" - BBC

27 May 2011 BBC interview
(+Wikipedia)

(+other video: My Bottom Line: Brent Hoberman, 4 November 2010, BBC)

The Money Chase (CNBC) - Inside Harvard Business School

The Money Chase

 

 

 

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Dean Nitin Nohria (Harvard) - Beyond Good and Evil: Understanding Our Capacity for Moral Failure

bigthink.com/nitinnohria

Many people possess an over-confidence in their own moral capacity. Nitin Nohria, dean of Harvard Business School, argues this overconfidence is what so often gets people in trouble.

Dean Ted Sndyer - Chicago-Booth Tribute

Dean Andrew Likierman (LBS) interviewed by Della Bradshaw (FT) - "Can enterpreneurship be taught?"

 

 

Video interview May 20 2011  Corporate bankers and management consultants. That's what business schools produce, so say the detractors, rather than entrepreneurs and innovators needed to stimulate economic growth. Sir Andrew Likierman, dean of London Business School, explains how it plans to research and teach just those neglected skills in a new multi-million pound centre.  (5m 27sec)

Entrepreneurship and innovation reports from Darden School of Business (U. Virginia)

Via @DardenEVC

Batten Briefings is a series of research reports that address important and timely topics in entrepreneurship and innovation. Upcoming issues will examine trends in Venture Capital, “green” innovation, and corporate growth strategies.

Financing Innovation Series: What Ever Happened to Venture Capital?
February, 2011
Download pdf here or view interactive version online by clicking on graphic below.

For the first time in venture capital's history, ten-year average fund returns have been negative.

Open publication

HGSE professor Howard Gardner wins the prestigious Prince of Asturias Prize. (Video)

Howard Gardner Havard Graduate School of Education

The John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education
Adjunct Professor of Psychology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

During the past two decades, Gardner and colleagues have been involved in the design of performance-based assessments; education for understanding; the use of multiple intelligences to achieve more personalized curriculum, instruction, and pedagogy; and the quality of interdisciplinary efforts in education.

May 13, 2008: A press release on Howard Gardner being named one of the top five influential business thinkers by The Wall Street Journal.

A Usable Knowledge article about Gardner's book Five Minds for the Future

An article on Howard Gardner's 'quintet of minds'

The Guardian, November 2006: A feature on Howard Gardner and his multiple intelligence theory

Geoffrey Moore - Entrepreneurship Corner, Stanford U - "Reach Your Escape Velocity"

(Previously on DeansTalk: 24 June 2009 - Book: "Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers" (by Geoffrey Moore): In 2006, Tom Byers, Faculty Director of Stanford Technology Ventures Program, described it as "still the bible for entrepreneurial marketing 15 years later".)

May 4, 2011 - In this high-energy lecture, (Dr.) Geoffrey Moore (Bio Wikipedia incl."The Chasm") discusses how companies can build the escape velocity necessary to move beyond the successes and failures of the past. Moore argues that when companies focus too much on performance, they miss out on building the power to become the industry leaders that other companies envy. He shares a hierarchy model through which companies can examine and build power, and examines how product teams can best work to differentiate their company, neutralize the competition, and optimize products and offers.

New Book - "Escape Velocity" out in September.

GBSN Congratulates MBA Video Challenge Winners - Haas School of Business

29 April 2011, GBSN’s MBA Challenge Winner Announced!

The first MBA Video Challenge drew to a close earlier this month and the selection committee had the difficult job of choosing a winner from nine fantastic submissions. GBSN was pleased to receive videos from Haas, IMD, MIT Sloan, Thunderbird, UDD, Tuck and Strathmore which highlighted the innovative work of MBA students in Brazil, Chile, Guatemala, India, Kenya, Mongolia, Panama, Peru, South Africa, Tanzania, and Zambia.

Projects included the development of new technologies, the creation of new growth strategies, the provision of technical assistance, and the identification of new income-generating projects.

And the winner is… the eight students of Haas School of Business (USA) led by Hrishika Vuppala! These eight students spent one year working with Community Markets for Conservation (COMACO) and the Wildlife Conservation Society to produce an independent organizational audit, a three-year strategic plan, and a geographic expansion strategy. COMACO provides a market-based solution to wildlife conservation by combating food insecurity through the creation of markets for rural farmers who might otherwise practice destructive land use or poach wildlife.

The Haas team identified and recommended the investments necessary to overcome historical difficulties, act more swiftly in the pursuit of opportunity, and shift from tactical considerations to concerted strategic maneuvers. By doing so, COMACO is better positioned to reach profitability in a sustainable manner and achieve long- term success.

Congratulations to the following Haas students – Hrishika Vuppala, Lauren Gellman, Kristin Mannix, Dan Parker, Paul Collins, Ciera Ashley, and Ricardo de Paula. We look forward to celebrating your success at GBSN’s annual conference in Mexico City!

Tuck hosts leadership conference: 40 of the US´s most esteemed executives in cable technology and operations

The Dartmouth.com, May 2, 2011

Tuck School of Business and the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers partnered for the first time to host 40 of the nation’s most esteemed executives in cable technology and operations, according to M. Eric Johnson, a science of administration professor and director of the Glassmeyer/McNamee Center for Digital Strategies at Tuck. The week-long leadership insitute, which took place between April 26 and April 30, was designed to help participants manage changes in their industry and to reinforce business, leadership and critical thinking skills necessary to remain competitive in an increasingly technological world, according to the Institute’s online brochure...Participants were also exposed to a variety of guest speakers such as Glenn Britt ’71, chairman and chief executive officer of Time Warner Cable Inc.

...“The key thing to understand about the cable industry is that you need to follow the changes in technology,” he said. “The industry is so fiercely competitive that without learning this innovative strategy and financial accounting it’s hard to succeed.”

Nooyi, CEO PepsiCo, Calls for More Women in Top Management - WSJ + interview

WSJ, April 8 

Indra Nooyi, chairman and chief executive of PepsiCo Inc., criticized fellow corporate leaders for failing to try hard enough to increase the ranks of women in upper management.

...Among the proposals backed by Ms. Nooyi: the creation of a private panel of big-business chiefs. This CEO commission would publish results of corporate efforts to expand the number of senior executive women – including "company scorecards and metrics" – and consider setting public targets for women's advancement...

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Indra Nooyi, Chairman and CEO of Pepsico VIP Distinguished Speaker Series September 16, 2010 with Dean Tom Gilligan at McCombs business school (Texas).

Book - Beyond the Familiar: Long-Term Growth Through Customer Focus And Innovation

No need for acts of management bravado, FT, March 30 2011

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Beyond the Familiar Long-Term Growth Through Customer Focus And Innovation
By professors Patrick Barwise (LBS) and Seán Meehan (IMD)
Wiley, £17.99

Salman Khan: Let's use video to reinvent education

Fast Company, How Bill Gates' Favorite Teacher Wants to Disrupt Education, February 16, 2011.

Gates- and Google-funded Sal Khan seeks to make his popular YouTube lessons universally accessible, and change the nature of education in the process...

+ "pause and repeat", "do homework in the classroom"

"Justice" course of Michael Sandel - one of Harvard's most popular courses free online

justiceharvard.org - Michael Sandel - 12 lectures

Wikipedia - Michael Sandel

Sandel has taught the famous "Justice"^[1] course at Harvard for two decades. More than 14,000 students have taken the course, making it one of the most highly attended in Harvard's history. The fall 2007 class was the largest ever at Harvard, with a total of 1,115 students.^[2] The fall 2005 course was recorded, and is offered online for students through the Harvard Extension School. An abridged form of this recording is now a 12-episode TV series, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?, in a coproduction of WGBH and Harvard University. Episodes are available on the Justice with Michael Sandel website.^[3][4] There is also an accompanying book Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?, and the sourcebook of readings Justice: A Reader.

Women - The Economist

March 8th 2011, Article "A work never done" The Economist online

How women fare across different sectors of society

A CENTURY ago, women were scarcely allowed to vote, let alone stand for election. Today women hold seats in parliaments across the world, and in one case are even in a majority. This is one of many achievements that will be celebrated on March 8th 2011, which marks the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day. Policies and quotas have helped women in politics and in business. In Norway, women make up nearly 40% of board members of the largest listed companies. Yet on average across Europe they only occupy one in every ten board seats. This may improve, with more women than ever now in the global business-school pipeline. In 2010, nearly 106,000 women sat the GMAT exam, an MBA entrance exam, accounting for over 40% of examinees...

Michael Lewis discusses The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, at Haas School of Business

Haas Video Room  (the book was recommended for understanding the crisis (one of two), what a layman should read, by Mervyn King the Governor of the Bank of England)

Author Michael Lewis discusses his book The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, the future of finance as he sees it, and his thoughts on whether today’s business students have a chance at changing it. (Running Time: 01:09:55)

IE Business School and Brown University Announce IE Brown Executive MBA

Brown University (on Wikipedia) was named by the 2010 Princeton Review as the #1 College in America for Happiest Students.

www.iebrown.com/executive-mba

Brown University Press release March, 2011

IE Business School and Brown University announce the launch of the IE Brown Executive M.B.A. Program, a one-of-a-kind offering that integrates the innovative approach to management education at IE Business School with Brown University’s excellence in the humanities, social, biological, and physical sciences. The program is designed for senior managers with more than 10 years of experience who want to develop their entrepreneurial mindset and gain a deeper and much richer understanding of the global business environment...